Automatic

I really loved Less Than Jake back when I was 14 or so... Their album Losing Streak was one of my favorites. I was young, ska was huge, and that angsty punk ska really did the trick for me.

I lost touch after that album, and a few years back I heard they ditched the horns after ska fell off the long cliff of trendiness. But as I perused their myspace page, I hear they've got horns (again?).

Dopeman wasn't really my favorite song from Losing Streak, but video-wise its quite superior to the others....

Less Than Jake plays with Rancid at the Knitting Factory on September 13.

Missing

I've been a fan of Onry Ozzborn and his crew Oldominion since my late teens/early twenties. He's grown into a very talented emcee/producer (peep his new Gigantics project) and I would argue that his Grayskul partner JFK is hands down the best rapper in Seattle.

Their new video Missing is one of my favorite songs on their new(er) record Bloody Radio. See if you can spot Spokane alum John Schirmer.

Here's a really old Onry MP3 (circa 1998-1999), from his album Owleye: featuring JFK, Pegee 13 and Foralax.

Onry: Matera 17 (f. JFK, Foralax & Pegee 13)

Grayskul plays at the BLVD on Sunday September 7 with Grynch, Phil in the Blank, Knothead and Bela Union.